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2006 AFC Youth Championship
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The 2006 AFC Youth Championship was the 34th instance of the AFC Youth Championship. It was held from 29 October to 12 November 2006 in India. It was the first time for India to host this tournament. Sixteen teams from the AFC qualified to the finals.
The tournament was won by North Korea, their second championship after sharing the trophy with IRAN in 1976, defeating Japan 5–3 in a penalty shootout after extra time finished in a 1–1 draw. South Korea defeated Jordan 2–0 to finish third.
The tournament also served as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, with a place for the 4 semi-finalists of the tournament.
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Qualification
33 Teams entered the Qualification, the teams were drawn into 14 groups. 11 groups with each three teams and 3 groups with two teams. The Qualification took part from November 2005 to December 2005 (except Group D which was scheduled to play in November 2005 but was postponed after the 2005 Amman bombings and played in February 2006). The Group-Winners qualified for the tournament, a Play-Off Game between the best second-placed teams from ASEAN (Myanmar) and East Asia (North Korea) was scheduled to in Kuala Lumpur on 15 February 2006. But after the withdrawal of Myanmar, the North Koreans qualified automatically. Hosts India were exempt from the qualification.
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Final tournament
Participants
Venues
Squads
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
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Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 6 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
 South Korea | 2 | |||||||||
| 9 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
 Australia | 1 | |||||||||
| South Korea | 2 (2) | |||||||||
| 6 November – Bangalore | ||||||||||
 Japan (pen.) | 2 (3) | |||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| 11 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
 Saudi Arabia | 1 | |||||||||
| Japan | 1 (3) | |||||||||
| 6 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
 North Korea (pen.) | 1 (5) | |||||||||
 China | 1 | |||||||||
| 9 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
 Jordan | 2 | |||||||||
| Jordan | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 November – Bangalore | ||||||||||
| North Korea | 1 | Third place | ||||||||
 Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
| 11 November – Kolkata | ||||||||||
| North Korea | 2 | |||||||||
| South Korea | 2 | |||||||||
| Jordan | 0 | |||||||||
Quarter finals
Semi finals
Third Place Play Off
Finals
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Winners
| 2006 AFC Youth Championship winners |
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 North Korea Second title |
Qualification to World Youth Championship
The following teams qualified for the 2007 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Awards
Goalscorers
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Chris Grossman- Dario Vidosic
Xu De'en- Yang Xu
Branco Vincent Cardozo- Lal Kamal Bhowmick
- Paresh Matondkar
Farhad Ale-Khamis- Kamaleddin Kamyabinia
- Shahram Goudarzi
Aqeel Hussein- Halkurd Mulla Mohammed
- Mohamed Khalaf
- Osama Ali
Ildar Amirov
Masato Morishige- Tsukasa Umesaki
Abdullah Deeb- Badr Abu Salim
- Lo'ay Omran
Mohd Khyril Muhymeen Zambri
Pak Chol-min- Ri Chol-myong
- Ri Hung-ryong
- Yun Yong-il
Ahmad Kabee- Ali Ataif
- Mohamed Al-Bishi
Kim Dong-suk- Lee Chung-yong
- Park Hyun-beom
Akhtam Khamrakulov
Phonlawut Donchui- Suttinun Phukhom
- Teerasil Dangda
Ibrahim Ali- Mubarak Mesmari
Nguyễn Quang Tình- Nguyễn Văn Khải
- Own goals
- Stepan Miagkih (playing against South Korea)
- Baddrol Bakhtiar (playing against Vietnam)
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Top scoring teams
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19 goals 12 goals 10 goals 8 goals 7 goals 6 goals |
5 goals 3 goals 2 goal 1 goal
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References
External links
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